Retrofitting Liverpool 2024
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Transition Gathering October 2024
Retrofitting Liverpool 2024
Part of the Transition Towns Network, we work towards a safe and sustainable future for everyone.
This event was to explore Retrofitting in Liverpool with a handful of speakers and a few workshops, so we can learn together.
Transition Liverpool Gathering, Saturday 5th October 2024
Retrofitting Liverpool: warm homes for all
Programme for the day:
10.00am Welcome and introductions – Anna Aiston on behalf of Liverpool Quaker Meeting.
The morning sessions will be co-ordinated by Tilly Postlethwaite, Transition Liverpool Lead.
10.15am Retrofitting your Liverpool home
Margaret Smith will give an illustrated talk about some of the things we can do to keep our homes warm this winter. This talk focuses at the level of the individual.
This will be in three sections:
Easy steps we can all take to keep warm
Intermediate steps we can take to reduce heat loss
A few things we can all aspire to if we get the chance.
The talk will finish with information about a house in Liverpool that has been extensively retrofitted.
10.40am Granby Streets ground source heat pump
Ed Gommon of Zero Carbon Liverpool City Region Ltd., who will share his successful experience in securing funding for a feasibility study. This study aims to install a ground source heat pump for part of a local community – two streets in Liverpool’s Granby area. This innovative project could serve as a blueprint for other communities seeking to provide carbon-neutral, cost-effective energy to their neighbourhoods. Ed, a founding member of the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust, also established Liverpool Community Renewables (LCR) in 2014. LCR is a community-benefit society, and Ed assembled a robust board comprising local experts in the field.
Three Horizons framework workshop led by Jordan Hau
Creating our vision for a Sustainable, Inclusive, Just and Equitable Future for Liverpool City Region. The three horizons process provides a structure for us as a group to think about how to move from the confines of how things are now to collaborate with others to create a picture of the system you want to build in order to create a better world. The task then is to focus on what may be needed to bring about that new system.
Su Stringfellow – Using sustainable materials with Growing Sudley CIC
Su Stringfellow, an architect from Stringfellow Associates will talk about the work she has done to retrofit the former changing facilities at Growing Sudley. This was a project where a team of people were trained in the skills of using hempcrete, a carbon neutral rendering material to reduce the loss of heat from the building. She will touch on the benefits of using a group of local people and giving them new skills for the future.
This presentation will be particularly valuable for those dealing with older poorly insulated structures that consider external insulation.
12.25pm Homebaked Community Land Trust – This is a growing group of local residents who have been working together since 2012 to shape their place of residence and work upon community ownership. The short video gives a glimpse of the way they have involved the whole community in reimagining their area and what it would need to be a happier, healthier and warmer community. Their approach is based on the principle that “…we all deserve to live well; for us that means making sure that the homes and spaces we create together are high quality and kept affordable to the people who live and work here – not just now, but also for future generations”. They also believe that living well includes access to an environment that provides good jobs, great food, and welcoming spaces to meet, share stories, learn, and celebrate.
They believe that “By regenerating our high street ‘brick by brick and loaf by loaf,’ they will be using money spent in the neighbourhood to benefit their community.
Q&A session at Retrofitting Liverpool
People were invited to place questions on sticky notes throughout the day. These were answered in this session.
End – Plenary Session
Local retrofit stories.
Paul Fawkesley captures his retrofitting milestones
This is Paul's timeline for the work he has done on his Liverpool house as he has worked towards a whole house retrofit. It is useful because it spells out what was done beginning with an assessment from People Powered Retrofit., the sequence of the steps that were...
Three Horizons framework workshop led by Jordan Hau
Three Horizons framework workshop led by Jordan Hau Three Horizons framework - Creating our vision for a Sustainable, Inclusive, Just and Equitable Future for Liverpool City Region. The three horizons process provides a structure for us as a group to think about how...
Homebaked Community Land Trust – Margaret Smith
This is a growing group of local residents who have been working together since 2012 to shape their place of residence and work upon community ownership. The short video gives a glimpse of the way they have involved the whole community in reimagining their area and...
Su Stringfellow – Using sustainable materials with Growing Sudley CIC
Su Stringfellow, an architect from Stringfellow Associates will talk about the work she has done to retrofit the former changing facilities at Growing Sudley. This was a project where a team of people were trained in the skills of using hempcrete, a carbon neutral...
Ed Gommon of Zero Carbon Liverpool
Granby Streets ground source heat pump – Ed Gommon of Zero Carbon Liverpool City Region Ltd., who will share his successful experience in securing funding for a feasibility study. This study aims to install a ground source heat pump for part of a local community – two...
Annual Transition Gathering: Retrofittng Liverpool 2024
Please consider coming to this one day gathering. Please register here for catering purposes Transition Gathering 5th October. or use the QR code above. If you are bringing children, please email transitionliverpool@gmail.com with the number and age of your...
Retrofitting your Liverpool home
Margaret Smith will give an illustrated talk about some of the things we can do to keep our homes warm this winter. This talk focuses at the level of the individual. This will be in three sections: Easy steps we can all take to keep warm Intermediate steps we can take...
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